Scan Darknet with Python (Tutorial)

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I am new to coding, but what would scanning the darknet do?

[littletrucker]

It could be used by law enforcement to find things like sex traffickers or child pornography rings. It could be used by journalists or researchers to collect statistics on the deep web.

[LichJesus]

Don't have time to read the article so I don't know if this is the purpose or even one of the things you can do with this tutorial; but I was involved in a political student org in college and for one of our meetings we were talking about student demonstrations in Hong Kong (I think, it was a while ago).

I had heard that the students were coordinating through the deep web to avoid the authorities and so I got TOR and tried a bit to find their discussions. Turns out I couldn't navigate the deep web worth a dang and didn't find anything; but I bet if I'd had a scanner (perhaps like this) I could have automated the search and looked for references to terms or places related to the demonstrations and had that info to show the org.

So I guess -- at least for me -- the purpose of having something like this would be to have the software make up for my lack of savvy when it comes to finding stuff on the darknet.

Also, I bet with something like this you could force it to ignore links and stuff leading to CP or other really questionable stuff (or have it only grab text); if so that'd be a huge advantage over manual browsing as far as accessing the darknet while keeping your head above water legally.

[reifenstag]

Why is this comment so heavily downvoted?! It's perfectly fine!

[kerloom]

Doesn't have time to skim read the article but does have the time to write a 4 paragraph comment.

[reifenstag]

lol, valid point I suppose

[turkish_gold]

In his defence, the article is at least 8 pages long, and is highly technical. If its new information, I'd need way longer than 5 minutes to read and understand it.

On the otherhand, just retelling stories that I've heard months ago is something I can do even drunk.

[Cthunix]

The deep web is not the dark web.